Curriculum Vitae | Academic VIỆT
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 2011.
American Studies and Ethnicity Department, University of Southern California
M.A. 2007. American Studies and
Ethnicity, University of Southern California
M.F.A. 2001. Studio Art with Graduate
Emphasis in Asian American Studies
University of California,
Irvine
B.F.A 1999. Fine Art, California State
University, Fullerton
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Southeast Asian Studies,
Vietnamese Studies, Cambodian
Studies, Asian American Studies, Visual
Culture (Art, Mass Media, Film), Memory/ Trauma, American Studies, Ethnography,
Race and Ethnicity, Buddhist Studies, Queer Studies, HIV/AIDS,
Transnationalism.
CRITICAL PUBLICATIONS:
Peer-Reviewed Publications
(Journals and Anthologies)
Lê, Việt.
2011. “Many Returns: Contemporary Vietnamese Diasporic Artists-Organizers in Hồ
Chí Minh City.” Book chapter, Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: A
Critical Anthology. Boreth Ly and Nora Taylor, eds. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2011. 41 pages. Forthcoming.
Lê, Việt. 2010.
“Artists and Developments in Sài Gòn.” Book chapter, Vietnam Update 2009: Migration Nation Anthology. Ashley Carruthers,
Philip Taylor, eds. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2010.
Peer-reviewed anthology. 35 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2005. “The Art of War: Vietnamese American Visual Artists Đỉnh Q. Lê, Ann Phông and Nguyễn Tân Hoàng.” Journal article, “Thirty Years AfterWARd: Vietnamese Americans and U.S. Empire,” Amerasia Journal special issue, Vol. 31, No. 2. Yen Lê Espritu and Thu-Hương Nguyễn-Võ, eds. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2005. Pp. 21-35.
Co-edited Volumes
Lê, Việt and
Chương-Đai Võ, eds. Eye of the Tiger: Southeast Asian
Contemporary Art from the Ground Up. Scholarly, visual and personal essays
solicited from artists, organizers, critics and scholars in Southeast Asia.
Manuscript in progress.
Lê, Việt, Kevin Bott,
Sylvia Gale, Laura Smith, eds. 2008. Reflections: A Journal of Writing,
Service Learning, and Community Literacy. Special online issue on academia
and activism. Peer-reviewed print journal. Online publication:
http://reflections.syr.edu. 269 pages.
Lê, Việt and Yong Soon Min, eds. Vietnam and Us special 7th issue of Journal BOL (Seoul, Korea). Critical essays by Profs. Charles Armstrong, Ashley Carruthers, Lan Dương, Yen Lê Espiritu, Yoon Chung Ro, Woo Don-Son. Visual essays by Susan Silton and others. 358 pages, trilingual: English, Korean and Vietnamese.
Lê, Việt and Yong Soon Min, eds. 2008. transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix. Art exhibition catalogue with critical essays by Profs. Hae-Jong Cho, Heonik Kwon, Việt Nguyễn, Nora Taylor. Seoul: ARKO Art Center, 2008. 239 pages, full color; trilingual: English, Korean and Vietnamese.
Lê, Việt and Alice Ming-Wai Jim, eds. 2005. Charlie Don’t Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists. Vancouver, BC: Centre for International Asian Art, 2005. Essays by Professors Linda Thinh Võ, Mariam Beevi Lâm, Moira Roth, Cam Vu and Tracy Maclean. 106 pages, full color.
Exhibition Catalogues
Lê, Việt. 2011.
“Thoamada ធម្មតា: Vuth Lyno.” Catalogue Essay. Phnom Penh: SA SA
BASSAC 2011. Khmer translation. 4 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2011. “Silence
and Void, or Double Trouble: Hồng-An Trương’s Visual Archives.”
Journal article, The Past is a Distant Colony Anthology. Dwayne Dixon,
editor. Durham: Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and the Franklin
Center, 2011. 26 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2010. “Rice
People: Phan Quang’s Art of Place.” Catalogue essay. Sài Gòn: Galerie Quynh,
2010. English with Vietnamese translation. 16 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2009. “Art,
Dioxin and Development: Đỉnh Q. Lê’s Damaged Gene Revisited.” Catalog essay for connect: Art Scene
Viet Nam group art exhibition, ifa-Galerie. Berlin: The Institut für
Auslandsbeziehungen, 2009. German translation. 14 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2009. Strictures, Superstructures and Supermodels.
Catalog essay for Super Structures exhibition.
Sue Hadju, editor. Sài Gòn: a little blah
blah publications, 2009. 16
pages.
Lê, Việt. 2008. “Here
Today, Sài Gòn Tomorrow: Contemporary Vietnamese Art and Sàn Art Independent
Art Space,” Camerawork magazine,
April 2008 issue.13 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2008. “All
Work, All Play: Of Workers and Cosplayers, Or, POPaganda: The Art of Tiffany
Chung,” catalogue essay. New York: Tyler Rollins Fine Art. 14 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2008.
“Vietnamese Diasporic Artist-Organizers in Việt Nam.” Vietnamese
Contemporary Art after Đổi
Mới exhibition catalog. Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 2008. 20
pages.
Lê, Việt. 2008. “It’s A
Wonderful World: Sandrine Llouquet,” catalogue essay. Sài Gòn: Galerie Quynh,
2008. English with Vietnamese translation. 10 pages.
Art Criticism, Shorter
Essays and Reviews
Lê, Việt and Nguyễn
Nhu Huy. 2011. “Transnationalism in Translation (A Tracing): Nguyễn Nhu
Huy and Việt Lê in Conversation.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary
Chinese Art, Volume 10, Number 2, March/April 2011. Beijing: Art and
Collection Group. English with Chinese translation. Pp. 52-64.
Lê, Việt. 2010. “Cloud
Cover: Hoang Duong Cam’s Covert Conceptual Practice.” Asian Contemporary
Artists 150. Hyowon Shim, ed. Seoul: Loop Alternative Art Space Publications,
2010. 8 pages.
Lê, Việt, Thien-Huong
Ninh and Chris Hearle. 2010. “Ho Down: Long March’s Ho Chi Minh Trail
Project in Phnom Penh.” diacritics blog article. Online publication:
www.diacritics.org. November 2010. 12 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2009. “The
Center Cannot Hold: Predicaments and Predictions,” Seoul, Korea: Art in Asia and Art in Culture magazines (sister publications), January/February
2009 issue. English with Korean translation. 8 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2008. “Home,
Again: Notes on Contemporary Vietnamese Art,” Diaaalogues column, Asian Art Archive, November 2008. Online
publication:
www.aaa.org.hk/newsletter_detail.aspx?newsletter_id=574&newslettertype=archive.
14 pages.
Lê, Việt and Yong Soon Min. 2008. “Time After Time: Memory and Modernity in Việt Nam, Korea, and the US,” introductory essay, Vietnam and Us special 7th issue of Journal BOL (Seoul, Korea). Critical essays by Profs. Charles Armstrong, Ashley Carruthers, Lan Dương, Yen Lê Espiritu, Yoon Chung Ro, Woo Don-Son. Việt Lê and Yong Soon Min, guest editors. Trilingual: English, Korean, Vietnamese. 13 pages.
Lê, Việt and Yong Soon Min. 2008. “‘Curatorial Conversations/ Correspondences,” curatorial essay, transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix. Art exhibition catalogue with critical essays by Profs. Hae-Jong Cho, Heonik Kwon, Việt Nguyễn, Nora Taylor. Việt Lê and Yong Soon Min, eds. Seoul: ARKO Art Center, 2008. Trilingual: English, Korean, Vietnamese. 16 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2006. “Korea Việt Nam Remixed,” War and Peace issue, Nhà Magazine, November / December 2007 issue. 14 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2006. “Aesthetics and Ethnics: Contemporary U.S. Curatorial Strategies and the ‘Postethnic,’” Fuse Magazine, feature article, June 2006. 23 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2005. “How Come Charlie Don’t Surf?” Introduction and curatorial essay, Charlie Don’t Surf, Catalogue to art exhibit curated by Việt Lê at Centre A,Vancouver Centre for International Asian Art, BC (April-May 2005). 23 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2005. “Girls
Just Wanna Have Fun: Miss Saigon with the Wind and the Politics of
Representation.” Nhà
magazine, February 2005. English with Vietnamese translation. 13 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2004. “The
Second Coming: Second Annual Queer Faculty Conference.” The Center for
Feminist Research Newsletter. On-line publication:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/cfr/html/newsletter.htm. 4 pages.
Lê, Việt. 1998. “GAMma
Rays: The Vision of Asian Gays in Film and Photography.” Journal article,
The American Papers (juried American Studies essays, September).
Fullerton, California State University.
32 pages.
Le,Viet. 2004. Book review of
Joel Tan’s Monster. Amerasia
Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Press, 2004. 8 pages.
CREATIVE WORK:
Visual
Lê, Việt. 2012. “Pop
Tarts.” boy bang! project featured with artist statement. positions:
east asia cultures critique special issue. Mariam Beevi Lâm, Fiona Ngô, and
Mimi Nguyễn, guest editors. Volume 20, Issue 3, Winter 2012. Durham: Duke
University Press. Forthcoming.
Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy. self-portrait series featured. This is All I
Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2009.
Lê, Việt. 2007. still photographic series featured. BN Magazine, November 2007 issue. 13 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2005. “Paper
Whites (Narcissus).” Poem and images from the pictures of you photographic
series. corpus. Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 2005. Los Angeles and New York:
The Institute for Gay Men’s Health, 2005. 10 pages.
Le Viet and Ayesha York. 2005.
“shadows and light.” West Coast Line 38/3, Winter 2004-05.
Vancouver, BC. 10 pages.
Written
Lê, Việt. 2010.
“Secondhand Emotion (Lost),” and “Samsara.” (poems), Courting Risk Poetry Anthology. Khadijah Queen, editor.
Forthcoming.
Lê, Việt. 2010. “Itaewon
Station,” "Lover of Air" and "Griffith Observatory Under
Renovation" (poems). Strange Cargo: Emerging
Voices Anthology. Los Angeles: PEN Center USA, 2010. Pp.
81-83.
Lê, Việt. 2010. “How to be Promiscuous in an Epidemic” and pictures of you series (poem and artwork. Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS anthology. Ellis, Kelly Norman, and M.L. Hunter, eds. Third World Press, 2010. 7 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2010. “Khmer
Alphabet” Asia Writes. Online poetry journal: asiawrites.com. April
2010.
Lê, Việt. 2010. “Hot
Dogs for Dinner,” “Strawberries for Sale” (short story and poem). The
Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam anthology. Catherine Cole, editor. Sydney: University of
Western Australia Press, 2010. 13 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2009. “A-1 Food Market,” “Haunting” (poems). Crab Orchard Review, “Color Wheel” issue, Volume 14, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2009. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 2009. 2 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2008.
“Fairytale,” Fire on the 405,” “succeed or quit” (poems and artwork). CONSEQUENCE journal. George Kovach, ed. Boston: William Joiner
Center. December 2008. 6 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2008. “Lost,”
“After Night Class, UCLA.”damau.org.
Poetry (English poems translated into Vietnamese) and artwork (boy bang series) featured in LGBT
special issue. October 2008 issue. Online publication: damau.org.
Lê, Việt. 2007.
“Leaving Los Angeles” (personal essay).
Love, West Hollywood anthology. Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, eds.
New York: Alyson Books, 2007. 10 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2006. “Asphalt Cocktail” (poem). Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets. Huntington Beach: Tebot Bach, 2007.
Lê, Việt. 2004. “Son
of a Gun” (short fiction). Asian Pacific American Journal, Volume
12.1 New York: Asian American Writers Workshop.
Lê, Việt. 2004.“The
Edge of the World” (poem). So Luminous the Wild Flowers: An Anthology of
California Poets. Huntington Beach: Tebot Bach, 2003.
Lê, Việt. 2004.
Asian Pacific American Journal, Childhood/ Food Issue (featured
artist).Volume 12. New York: Asian American Writers Workshop. 3 pages.
Lê, Việt. 2004. “I
Sleep in Your Old Bed”; “Incense” (poems). Linda Võ, ed.,
Diaspora and Dimensions
Amerasia Journal special issue, Vol. 29.
No. 1. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian
American
Studies Center Press, 2004. 3 pages.
FELLOWSHIPS/ GRANTS:
2012
Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Fellow
2011 Advanced Study of Khmer (ASK) Fellow, Phnom Penh, Cambodia,
Fulbright-Hays
University of Southern California Dissertation Completion
Fellowship
University of Southern California Summer ‘11 and Fall ‘11
Research Grants
Cultural Exchange International (CEI) Art Grant, City of
Los Angeles
2010 Long March Space invited Residency, Shanghai
and Beijing, China
Center for Khmer Studies Khmer Language
& Culture Study Program summer fellowship
2009 University of Southern California Conference
Travel Award Grant
Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalist,
Hong Kong (artwork raised $7,500 at auction for charity)
Center for Khmer Studies Senior
Research Fellowship, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Civitella Ranieri Art Residency
Fellow, Umbria, Italy
2008 Fulbright-Hays International Dissertation
Research Fellow
General
Education Teaching Award, College of Arts and Letters, USC
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program Visiting
Scholar, Washington DC
2007 Anna Bing Research Fellowship, USC
($18,600–declined)
PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow
Imagining America Annual Conference,
Syracuse, New York
Association for Asian Studies Art and Politics Dissertation
Workshop Fellow, Boston, MA
2006 Rockefeller Fellow, William Joiner Center
for the Study of War and Social Consequences, MA
Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute Fellowship
(Hà Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt
Nam)
2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
(FLAS),
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute,
Madison, WI
2004 Provost’s Fellowship, USC, Program in
American Studies and Ethnicity
The Banff Centre IntraNation Project residency fellow,
Alberta, Canada
2003-4 Fine Arts Work Center
Visual Arts residency fellow, Provincetown, MA
Writers at Work national fellowship finalist
2002 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal
Fellow, Los Angeles, CA
Squaw Valley Community of Writers scholarship, CA
2001 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University
of California, Irvine
2001-02 ArtsBridge
scholarship
CONFERENCES AND OTHER
PRESENTATIONS:
Conferences | Invited Lectures:
“Testimonies,
Representation and Justice: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal.” Invited Panelist. The National Association for the
Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans
(NAFEA). October 7-8, 2011.
Decolonial
Aesthetics
roundtable panel. Invited Panelist. Decolonial Aesthetics workshop and
exhibition hosted by Walter Mignolo. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
May 4-7, 2011.
“Silence and Void: Hồng-An Trương’s Visual Archives.” Plenary Panel.
Re-SEAing Southeast Asian Studies Conference. San Francisco State University,
San Francisco. March 10-11, 2011.
“Contemporary Art Practice and Spaces in
Cambodia and Việt Nam.” Invited Talk, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China.
In conjunction with invited Long March Space Beijing Education Residency.
December 8-18, 2010.
“Contemporary
Art in Phnom Penh.” Center for Khmer Studies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. November
25, 2010.
“What Remains: Returns, Confrontations, Representation, and Traumatic Memory
in S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Refugee.” Panelist. Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference: Circuits of Exchange With(in) Southeast Asian Cinemas. July 1-4, 2010. Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam.
“Performance and Reading by
lê thị diễm thúy.” Organizer and moderator. Sàn Art Independent Art
Space, Sài Gòn, Việt Nam. May 15, 2010.
“Curatorship: Four Faces | Việt
Lê, Zoe Butt, Chris Meyers, Viviana Meijia.” Invited Talk, Reyum Institute,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. February 16 & 17, 2009.
“Returns and Reliving Truamas: Documentary and the Politics of Representation.” Presenter. Cambodia and World History/ World History and Cambodia conference, Pannasastra University of Cambodia. Jan. 3-4, 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“Artistic Diasporas and Developments in Sài Gòn.” Invited Presentation,
Migration Nation Conference, Australian National University, Canberra. November
19-20, 2009.
“Việt Lê: Photography, Pornography & Autobiography.” Invited
Artist Talk, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA,USA. September 21, 2009.
“Changes and Exchanges: Development and Contemporary Art Dialogue in Việt
Nam and Korea.” Invited Talk, ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit,
ASEAN-KOREA Dialogue Relationship, Korean Ministry of Arts, Culture, and
Tourism. Jeju-do, Republic of Korea, June 2, 2009.
“The Art Part: Diasporic
Desires and Divides in Việt Nam and Korea,” Invited Talk, William Joiner
Center for the Study of War and Its Consequences, Rockefeller Fellow
Presentations, Boston, MA, April 27-28, 2009.
“VietKor(ps): Shared
Histories and Transnational Arts Practices,” Association of Asian American
Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai'i, April 22-26, 2009.
“Transnationalisms,
Translation and Transgression.” Invited Talk, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
CA. Panel on transnational art and curatorial practices held in conjunction
with the publication of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1. March
14, 2009.
“Introductions” and “Modern
Love: Discrepant Modernities and New Subjectivities” Roundtable Panel, transPOP Symposium. Panelist and
Co-organizer (with Yong Soon Min). Institute of East Asian Studies, University
of California Berkeley. February 14, 2009.
transPOP Panel
and Gallery Walkthrough Co-organizer, University of California, Irvine.
November 2, 2008.
“Miss(ing) Saigon: Vietnamese
Diasporic Artists Residing in Việt Nam.” Invited Talk, Vietnamese
Contemporary Art after Đổi
Mới symposium, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. May 16-18, 2008.
“The Art Part: Art, Curating
and Communities.” Invited Lecture, Đong Sơn Today Foundation, Hà Nội,
Việt Nam. April 26, 2008.
“What’s Love Got to Do with
It? Notes on Art, Activism in Asia/ America.”
Invited Lecture, California State University, Long
Beach, CA. November 8, 2007.
“25 Years of AIDS and
Activism: Michael Kearns,” American Studies Association Annual Conference,
Philadelphia, PA. Panel Chair. October 16, 2007.
“Asian/ American Art: Việt
Lê and Julie Thi Underhill” Creighton
University, Omaha Nebraska. Three Invited Lectures and Artist Exhibition.
October 13-15, 2007.
“In Visible Cities, or,
Miss(ing) Saigon: Ethnographic Notes on Contemporary Vietnamese Art in Hà Nội
and Hồ Chí Minh City,” Crosstown Connections: Association for
Asian American Studies conference, New York City, April 4-6, 2007.
“Haunted Desires: AIDS,
Trauma, the Uncanny, and Visual Art,” Ghosts, Monsters, and the Dead:
Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies conference, UCSD, San Diego, CA. March 5, 2007.
“Beyond Love and War:
Diasporic Contemporary Art, Activism, and Audiences—Việt Nam, Korea, and
the U.S.” Invited Lecture. Panel Organizer for interdisciplinary roundtable
panel of Vietnamese American and Korean American artists and scholars examines
and questions the parameters of Vietnamese local and diasporic cultural production
within a transnational framework. Professors Viet Nguyen, Lan Duong, Yong Soon
Min with artists/ activists Tram Le and Việt Lê. LA><ART, Los
Angeles, CA. March 3, 2007.
“The Art of Đỉnh
Q. Lê,” Moderator (artist’s talk with Đỉnh Q. Lê ) for South by
Southeast: Indian and Vietnamese Artists in a Transnational Age (Asians in the
Americas/ Americans in Asia) event, University of Southern California, CA.
February 1, 2007.
“Love is A Battlefield:
Trauma, Representation, and Memory in Contemporary Vietnamese and Korean
Cinema,” American Studies Association conference, Oakland, CA. October 12-15,
2007.
“Pop Heard ‘Round the World:
Korea and Việt Nam in the Mix,” Invited Lecture with Yong Soon Min and Việt
Lê. Saigon Open City, Hồ Chí Minh City, July 5, 2007.
“The Politics of
Transnational Contemporary Art Practice and Curating,” Invited Lecture with
Yong Soon Min, Soo Yong Chin, Việt Lê. Sài Gòn Association of Fine Arts,
Hồ Chí Minh City. August 30, 2007.
“Karma Chameleon: Curatorial
Strategies and Race in Contemporary Visual Art,” Paper Presented, Bodies,
Communities, Regions: Association for Asian American Studies conference,
Atlanta, Georgia. March 22-26, 2006.
“Aesthetics and Ethnics:
Contemporary U.S. Curatorial Strategies and the ‘Postethnic,’” Paper Presented,
The National and the Natural: Reconciling Gaps and Breaks. 4th
Annual Ethnic Studies Conference, University of Southern California, CA. March
4, 2006.
“Vietnamese and Vietnamese
Diasporic Visual Art,” Paper Presented, Southeast Asian Studies Conference,
University of Madison, Wisconsin, May 19, 2005.
“Time and Again: Vietnamese
Diasporic Cultural Production,” Paper Presented, The Vietnam War, Thirty Years On:
Memories, Legacies, and Echoes Conference,
The University of Newcastle, Australia. April 14-15 2005.
“The Horror, The Horror: The
Vietnam War, Representation, Race and Memory,” Paper Presented, Thirty Years
Beyond the War Conference, University of California, Riverside. April 2005.
“Charlie Don’t Surf: Four
Vietnamese North American Artists,” Panel Organizer and Moderator, Centre A,
British Columbia. April 2005.
“Gender and Sexuality in Dang Nhat Minh’s Films,” Panel
Presentation (panelists: Dhang Nhat Minh, Dr. Thu-Huong Vuong, Dr. Kung
Hyun Kim, Dan Tsang), University of California, Irvine. October 2005.
“Enacting Identity: Asian
American and Pacific Islander Performance Art and Activism,” Panel Organizer
and Moderator, Crossing Boundaries: Asian American Studies
Regional Conference,
Cal Poly Pomona. November
2003.
“Racialized Desires and
Contested Spaces,” Panel Organizer and Moderator, Crosstalk II: Asian American Sexualities Conference,
California State University, Northridge. November 2003.
Other Presentations (Invited Readings, Workshops and
Talks):
“Art
as Commodity” Art + Politics discussion
series curated by Khiang Hei. Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia. June 19, 2011.
“In
Conversation with Việt Lê.” Artist Talk series hosted by SASA BASSAC,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Moderated by Pamela Nguyễn Corey. June 11, 2011.
“Indivisible.”
Invited Reading, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA. January
22, 2011.
“I’m
All Out of Love: Việt Lê’s Artistic and Curatorial Practice.” Artist Talk,
Java Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. November 14, 2010.
“Courting Risk.” Invited
Workshop and Reading, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York.
November 13, 2008.
“Political Choices, Artistic
Voices.” Invited Panelist, VAALA Center, Santa Ana, CA, January 18, 2009.
“Artists InSight –Artists In
Conversation.” Invited Panelist,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. February 13, 2009. Imagining our Future lecture series.
“Curators Tour, Big Ideas
Open House” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. January 31,
2009.
“Leaving Los Angeles.”
Invited Reading and Panel for Love, West
Hollywood anthology (Alyson Books, 2007), Californnia State University, Los
Angeles, Los Angeles. October 5, 2008.
“Sex Behind the Orange
Curtain: Erotism and Art,” Invited Lecture, Laguna Art Museum. November
2005.
“Writers in Exile,” Panel Presentation and Reading
(sponsored by PEN USA),
West Hollywood Book Fair. September 2003.
Engaging with
Uncertainties: Local and Global Actions,
Asian American Studies Regional Conference, Boston. March 27, 2004
Writers in
Exile, Panel Presentation and Reading
(sponsored by PEN USA), West Hollywood
Book
Fair. September 2003.
Multicultural Voices reading cohosted by PEN Center Orange County and UCI Center
for Writing and
Translation. September 26,
2003.
Reflections of Wars reading, California State University, Northridge. May 7, 2003
Tebot Bach Anthology of
California Poets
reading and book launch
party, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA. April 17, 2003
Rage (a play by Việt
Lê).Staged reading at East West
Players, Los Angeles. March 17, 2003
War and Other Matters. Featured reader for Track
16 Nights (part of a series) at Track 16 Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA. January
31, 2003
Sense of Site. Group poetry
reading of poets selected for the Sense of Site project
Skylight Books, Los Angeles.
November 13, 2002
Hot Summer Nights, an evening of poetry, experimental music and film,
hosted by the L.A. Cultural
Affairs Dept. Hisaki Theater,
Japanese American National Museum. August 31, 2002
Emerging Voices Reading, an evening of readings by the seven 2002 PEN Emerging
Voices Fellows
Mark Taper Auditorium, Los
Angeles. July 31, 2002.
InspirationHouse: Voice
Music for Whole Living. KPFK 90.7 FM.
Featured reader, host Peter Harris.
June 10, 2002.
Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books, Etc... Stage, featured
reader. April 28, 2002.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
RESEARCH
Master’s: Investigated political protests within the Vietnamese
American community as sites of memorialization, and the process(es) of
historical and individual memory and amnesia within public discourse through
ethnography, interviews, and archival research. Included research on Vietnamese
traveling cultural art exhibitions and performances which were protested in
America, as well as Hi-Tek video store demonstrations, 1999.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Department of Anthropology, University of Southern
California (September ’06-present)
Research Assistant for
Professor Janet Hoskins
Translator for an
ethnographic project on Cao Đài, a syncretic religion established in
Vietnam. Transcribing and translating interviews in US and Việt Nam.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of California, Irvine: Lecturer, Asian American Studies spring
2012
Teaching Asian American Media
& Arts upper division undergraduate course
University of Southern California: Teaching Assistant fall
‘11
Taught undergraduate
discussion sections for upper-division undergraduate general education Arts and
Letters course entitled the American War in Việt Nam for Professor
Việt Nguyễn.
University of Southern California: Teaching Assistant spring ’08-fall’09
Taught undergraduate
discussion sections for an undergraduate general education Sociology course on social
problems, social psychology and social research mehods for Professor Michael
Messner and Professor Julie Albright.
University of Southern California: Teaching Assistant fall ‘06, spring ‘07
Taught undergraduate
discussion sections for a course on race, ethnicity and class in Los Angeles
for Professor Leiland Saito and Professor Sarah Gaultieri.
University of California, Irvine: Lecturer, art history/ studio art winter '01-fall ‘03
Taught Visual Culture
classes, a combined art history lecture (1900-present) and interdisciplinary
studio art course.
Irvine Valley College/ Golden West College: art history instructor fall 2001-spring ‘03
Taught undergraduate art
history lecture survey courses, spanning from
prehistoric art to contemporary
art movements. Socio-political context of work also discussed.
ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY
SERVICE:
National MSM Network/
Bandanh Chaktomuk (BC) volunteer,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2010-ongoing
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Board Member 2007-ongoing
Organize and develop
cultural events for artists of Vietnamese descent internationally.
dvanonline.org
Hà Đăng
(LightHouse) LGBT HIV/AIDS Outreach volunteer, Hà Hội,
Việt Nam
2007-2008
transPOP symposium Co-organizer
(with Yong Soon Min), Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea January 18-19, 2008
Interdisciplinary symposium examining transnational
circuits of commerce, culture and consumption within and without Asia with
leading scholars, artists and organizers from Japan, Australia, United States,
and Việt Nam.
Reviewer, Amerasia Journal, 2007
PASEO (Peer American
Studies & Ethnicity Organization) Co-Chair ‘06-07, USC
(liaison/ rep for faculty and students in American
Studies & Ethnicity Dept. grad organization)
Organized academic and social activities which
contributed to USC’s intellectual community
2006 Ethnic Studies
Conference Organizing Committee,
ASE, USC
Reviewer,
positions: east asia cultures critique, 2007
Admissions Committee
Grad representative, ASE 2005-‘06
Vietnamese
International Film Festival 2007,
UCLA, UCI, Regal Cinemas
Help organize and facilitate biannual film festival
which draws over 5,000 viewers and participants over 10 days of screenings,
workshops and panels.
Vietnamese Arts and
Letters Association (VAALA) Board Member 2007-’09 vaala.org
Spearhead activities for the largest expatriateVietnamese
cultural organization; fundraiser.
Reviewer,
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2004
VAALA Board Member and
Performance Chair 2004-‘06 (VAALA)
Organized and produced cultural arts events—exhibitions,
readings, screenings, performances
AIDS Services Support
Group volunteer, 2000-‘05 (LA,
WI, MA, NY)
Volunteer: local
after school mentoring for disadvantaged youth; art lessons for seniors, 2000-‘04
EXHIBITIONS 2004-10:
1aspace, Hong Kong, Hong
Kong; Java Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; The Rotunda, Honk Kong, Hong Kong;
Sàn Art, Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam; doebaebasca Gallery, Seoul,
Korea; Asian Pacific American Institute, NYU, NY; Highways Performance Space,
Santa Monica, CA; 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Cape
Museum of Art, MA; The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
Gallery, New York, NY; Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Cape Museum
of Fine Arts, MA; Shoshin Performance Space, NYU; University Art Gallery,
University of California, Irvine; Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; Open
Studio, Canada.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
humor us September 14-December 30, 2007
co-curators: Leta Ming, Yong
Soon Min, Việt Lê
LA Muncipal Art Gallery, LA, CA. A multimedia
exploration of artists who engage in
humorous
strategies including play, irony, wit, and satire in
their work. Twenty artists featured. humorus.net.
Catalogue.
me so funny October 27, 2007
co-curators: Leta Ming, Yong
Soon Min, Việt Lê
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre,
Hollywood, CA. One night four-act
performance event highlighting cutting-edge
humor. D’Lo, OPM, Lan Tran, Kristina Wong. humorus.net. Catalogue.
transPOP: Korea and Việt
Nam Remix October 2007-March 2009
co-curated with Yong Soon Min
ARKO Art Center, Seoul Korea;
Galerie Quynh and Sàn Art Independent Art Space, Sài Gòn, Việt Nam;
University of California, Irvine University Art Gallery, Irvine, CA, USA; Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA. A major traveling group
exhibition exploring pop culture and historical intersections between Korea and
Việt Nam and its diasporas, featuring international collaborations.
Sixteen artists featured. Related programming includes panels, artist’s talks,
screenings at each venue. Co-organized symposiums in Seoul and San Francisco.
arkoartcenter.or.kr; galeriequynh.com; www.san-art.org; ucigallery.com;
ybca.org. Catalogue.
The National and the Rational March 3, 2006
University of Southern
California performance event for Ethnic Studies national conference
performance artists: LeVan D.
Hawkins, Lan Tran, AR-15
Charlie Don’t Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists April 15-May 21, 2005
Centre A, International
Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada
artists: Đỉnh Q.
Lê, Ann Phong, Nguyễn Tân Hoàng, Trân T. Kim-Tráng. Catalogue.
Miss Saigon with the Wind performance event January
6-9, 2005
Highways Performance Space,
Santa Monica, CA and Viên Đọng, Westminster, CA
artists: lê thi diem thúy,
Erin O’Brien, Mai Piece, Lan Tran, Uyen Hunh & Tram Lê.
RESEARCH LANGUAGES: Vietnamese,
Khmer
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
Member, Association of Asian
Studies
Member, Association for Asian
American Studies
Member, American Studies
Association
Member, College Art
Association
References available upon
request